NCAA 'isn’t protecting women' amid transgender participation policy, female athlete says

Track and field college athlete Chelsea Mitchell and ADF general counsel Kristen Waggoner join ‘America Reports’ to respond to the NCAA's revised transgender participation policy.

A female athlete is fighting back against the NCAA’S decision to update its transgender participation policy. 

Chelsea Mitchell, a college athlete who as a high school student sued several Connecticut districts, and the state's athletic conference, to stop trans athletes from competing in women's sports, argued that the NCAA’s decision is "disappointing" and that the policy "isn’t protecting women."

"In high school, I raced against transgender athletes all four years of my high school career, and I lost four state championships…countless other opportunities to advance and compete," Mitchell told "America Reports," Thursday.  

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"It's really disappointing that the NCAA didn't take this opportunity to stand up and protect women and girls."  The NCAA's revised policy on transgender athletes was approved by its Board of Governors on Wednesday. The new approach to allowing transgender athletes will follow a sport-by-sport model similarly adopted by the U.S. and International Olympic committees. Trans athletes are now required to document sport-specific testosterone levels before championship selections. 

"There's no amount of hormone suppressants that can overcome the physical advantages that a man has over a woman," Kristen Waggoner, ADF general counsel and Mitchell’s attorney, told "America Reports" co-host Sandra Smith.

"The NCAA should be ashamed of themselves today, and they have violated their legal obligations they have to student female athletes."

The attorney added that the law